Fellows' Presentation

As the Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, ZZ Packer is working on a sweeping novel titled "The Thousands" that follows the lives of several families from the end of the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.

"Just about everyone leaves prison and enters poverty," said Harvard sociologist and Radcliffe Fellow Bruce Western, who recently completed a study tracking 122 incarcerated men and women who were released back into society.

Radcliffe Institute fellow Carol Steiker, Harvard's Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, discusses the history of capital punishment and the Supreme Court and the death penalty's waning prominence in American justice.

Radcliffe fellow and astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is no romantic star-gazer. He tests out his theories in front of a computer screen, where complex simulations defy the boundaries of human experience and the assumptions we make about the universe.

Political scientist and Radcliffe fellow Harith Hasan al-Qarawee studies state-society relations, political transitions, and identity politics in Iraq and the Middle East. The Harvard Gazette recently spoke with al-Qarawee about the rise of ISIS in Iraq.